“A Year at a Glance” 2018 – Karibu’s Annual Report
We are pleased to present “A Year at a Glance,” a small collection of impressions and glimpses from various programs and activities organized by partners of the Karibu Foundation in 2018.
Karibu welcomes three interns
Karibu is pleased to welcome three interns to our secretariat in Oslo for the month of January 2019. They will be assisting the Karibu staff with a number of tasks during their four week period in Norway. ...
Board Meeting Dates – First Semester 2019
The Karibu Foundation Board will be meeting three times during the first semester of 2019. Deadlines for the consideration of applications for the first half of 2019 are therefore detailed below.
Towards a world without forced migration
The Churches Witnessing with Migrants (CWWM) network is currently gathered in Marrakesh, Morocco for 3 days of strategizing, information sharing, and advocacy. The CWWM is meeting in the context of the passing of the UN's "Global Compact on...
World Social Forum on Migration set to begin in Mexico City
From 2.-4. November 2018, social movements and activists from around the world will be meeting in Mexico City for the 8th World Social Forum on Migration (WSFM). Under the banner,
Peoples’ Global Conference on IMF and World Bank to be held in Bali
The gathering will be held in parallel to the 2018 Annual Meeting of the IMF and World Bank in Bali, will look into the experiences of peoples’ movements from various countries in struggling against IMF-WB’s policies, and will put...
Grassroots opposition to military show on Jeju Island
The Gangjeong International Team has issued a signature campaign to stop the military exercises and show (International Flight Review) that are expected to be held on October 10th, 2018 on Juju Island off the coast of South Korea.
Confronting divisions and extremism in Iraq – sports camp held in Sulaymaniah
The Iraqi Social Forum (ISF) is in Sulaymaniah, northern Iraq, leading a sports camp in the town of Dukan. The camp includes various exercises and nonviolent workshops, with the aim of building a strong civil society, confronting divisions...
Fighting for a socially just, democratic multilateral trading system
Karibu partner "Our World is Not for Sale" (OWINFS) has this week been participating at the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Public Forum (the WTO’s largest annual outreach event) in Geneva, Switzerland. OWINFS members and their allies hosted...
“Listen to us”: Development alternatives from small-scale farmers and fisherfolk
In September 2018, over 50 small-scale farmers, fisherfolk and representatives of civil society organizations from 15 different countries met in Yaoundé, Cameroon for the International Civil Society conference on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), agriculture and fisheries organized by...